Wild Up presents the world premiere of a newly commissioned work by Shelley Washington for Wild Up musicians and The Collective Orchestra, an open-invitation community ensemble, in The Room Begins to Rise. Inspired by Émile Durkheim’s concept of “collective effervescence”—the energy that arises when people gather in shared emotion, attention, and action—the piece asks how music can become a practice of collective life. Through a flexible score that combines notation, images, text, and prompts, the piece invites musicians of all backgrounds to a collaborative performance shaped by listening, responsiveness, and shared decision-making. Wild Up musicians serve as both performers and facilitators, teaching and learning the work alongside community participants. REDCAT will be reconfigured into a communal space, allowing performers and audience to occupy a shared field of resonance, proximity, and exchange—a space where music becomes a way to rehearse collective creativity, cooperation, and democratic action in real time. https://www.redcat.org/events/democracy-sessions-room-begins-rise

Nat Evans performs What Are Days For in full, with opening support from Cassia Streb, Tim Feeney, Melissa Achten, and Eli Klausner. Doors 7:30pm; performance 8:00pm.

Event information and tickets: https://www.oracleegg.com/calendar/nat-evans-album-release

Matt McBane performs new music for synthesizers and strings with Betsy Rettig, cello, and Ian Dicke, synthesizer.

Event information and tickets: https://brightworknewmusic.com/event/tms-matt-mcbane-works-for-synthesizers-and-strings/